re: 3 CD roms How to make work? Friday, June 4, 2004 at 11:40 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ricer46 (23823 messages posted) It's really not a good idea to do this. Your hard drive could slow down to the same data transfer rate as the CDROM. A safer method is to add another IDE adapter, if your motherboard doesn't already have 4, as some newer boards do. On Friday, June 4, 2004 at 11:22 am, carbo18 wrote: >IDE is limited to 4 drives total in most cases. > >This is how I would set it up, if I wanted to keep all drives. > >IDE0 - Master: Hard-Drive >IDE0 - Slave: Plextor >IDE1 - Master: NEC DVD +/- RW >IDE1 - Slave: Creative CR-ROM > >But personally I would can the Creative, because your Plextor is a much better drive >and serves the same purpose as well as more. Written in response to: re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Friday, June 4, 2004 at 11:22 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 3 CD roms How to make work? (storm: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 10:09 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:22 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (Ricer46: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:40 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (storm: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:43 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 11:54 am) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 12:03 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 12:34 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 12:51 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (mojo7819: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 1:18 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (Tom Swanson: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 1:18 pm) re: 3 CD roms How to make work? (carbo18: Fri, Jun 4, 2004, 7:52 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum